Review: songbook - 'The Now Sound of Folk Music'

Subject: Review: Book - 'The Now Sound of Folk Music'
From: retrancer
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 05:10 PM

bought this for a dime today but the page of copyright is ripped half off, anyone know of this publication?

Subject: RE: Review: Book - 'The Now Sound of Folk Music'
From: Folkiedave
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 06:03 PM

Paperback - 1986 - should be around $25.00 - you got a bargain!!

Dave
Supplier of previously cherished folk books to the itinerant folk singer and others.

Subject: RE: Review: Book - 'The Now Sound of Folk Music'
From: retrancer
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 06:47 PM

Thanks for the info FD!!well, it may be a bargain but unfortunately half the front cover and next page are missing - kind of ripped away. ugly but the music is still there! I'm going to enjoy it looking at some of the songs - ever come across one called "My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions"?

Subject: RE: Review: Book - 'The Now Sound of Folk Music'
From: Folkiedave
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 06:59 PM

Book - yes indeed...........Frank Shay who also did some shanty book whose name I have currently forgotten.

It usually comes as a double volume MPF and DC and "More PF and DC"

if all you want is book about $5.00. Original 1927 copy - about $25.00
Dover did one in 1961.........

Next!!

Subject: RE: Review: Book - 'The Now Sound of Folk Music'
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 10:47 PM

If you want to know what the rest of the cover looked like, see http://www.richardandmimi.com/nowsound.html